Much of ethics is relational.

It's about how we treat other people, the world around us, and how those relationships shape who we become.

In philosophy, this often gets formalized as a set of virtues to cultivate, duties to obey, or harms to avoid. But today,

we rarely talk about sins, let alone the seven deadly sins. Historically rooted in the Christian

tradition, pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth have been understood not just

as personal failings. They were taken seriously

because they obscured what it meant to flourish, that is, to be fully alive. They are fundamentally

habits of being that corrode our ability to love. So, what might we learn today from

the seven deadly sins? How can these ancient categories illuminate our lives in a world marked by

disconnection and distraction? In this episode, we'll be speaking about the seven sins with Elizabeth

Oldfield. Elizabeth is a writer, speaker, host of the sacred podcast and the former director of the

Theos think tank. In her recent book, Fully Alive, she revives the seven deadly sins, not as a tool for moral condemnation, but as a lens through which to examine our practices and principles.

We'll be talking with Elizabeth about how sin, properly understood, can help us confront the crisis of meaning and the collapse of community.

We'll also explore her Christian vision of mold transformation and why it's vital

to believers and non-believers alike.

Hello and welcome to episode 141 of the pan sidecast, dropping the G-bomb.

I'm Jack Symes, and I'm delighted to be joined once again by the man who's not like any of us, it's Mr. Olly Marley. Hello.

And the beloved Elizabeth Oldfield. Hello, and now I want to know in what ways Olly is not like anyone else. I hope we'll get to that. He's ineffable. He's beyond philosophical concepts. You can only speak about him in the negative.

So, Liz, the first question we ask all of our guests is normally what they take philosophy to be.

And I suppose you're doing something a little different to the philosophy we traditionally conceive here on the show.

Rather, you're offering a sort of philosophy of life, guidance and

direction on how to live well. Now, you mentioned in our live event between God and atheism,

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